ANTHONY W. RICHARDSON
"Data levels all arguments."
Founder, Author, Advisor, Speaker, Investor
Dog person
INTRODUCTION
Strategy. Insight.
Guidance. Execution.
During my career, I have had the pleasure of working with...
Venture capitalists, who parachute me in to ensure the growth marketing and overall performance of the startups within their portfolio,
Innovative tech founders, who want to focus on building their vision, but need someone to promote and scale the fantastic that they've created,
Fortune 500 corporations, who want to tap into and engage the innovative startup ecosystem to glean insights and technology,
and leading incubators, accelerators and academic institutions where I can give back, teach, mentor, evaluate and guide the next generation of startup entrepreneurs.
In late 2017 I founded Gearbox.AI, a big data, AI startup designed to solve startup sourcing and diligence for open innovation professionals.
In 2019, I founded VentuRank (exited) a startup intake scoring platform to make early screening easier for venture capitalists' cold deal flow.
For 2024/25 I'm building another software company in the corporate culture space.
It's been a great journey (so far),
-AWR
STATS & FIGURES
A career in numbers
244
Startup Consulting Engagements
83.2%
Successful Startups / Harvest
14
Liquidity Event
Participation(s)
6
Accelerators & Incubators Roles As Mentor / Advisor / SME
132
Accelerator / Incubator
Startups Mentored
11
Startup Board Member
Seats Held
4
Non-Profit Board
Seats Held
4
Interim C-Level (CMO, COO)
Roles Held
2
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Roles Held
2
Book(s) Published
~ 20+
Years of Experience
(I gotta stop updating this number)
ACADEMIA
Fostering Student-led
Entrepreneurship
Washington University St. Louis
Skandalaris Cup : Mentor
Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship
Washington University St. Louis
Global Impact Awards: Mentor
Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship
Washington University St. Louis
Greenleaf Fund Selection Committee Member
Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship
MENTORSHIP:
ACCELERATORS / INCUBATORS
Guiding Tomorrow's
Innovative Tech Founders
COMPANIES & PROJECTS
Full-Scale
Founder, Principal
A boutique consulting firm dedicated to providing venture capitalists and their Series A startups with market-ready customer acquisition and user adoption strategies.
(Est. 2003)
(Exit)
Fall / Winter 24 Speaking Topics
“Full-Scale”: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue
Educating startups, tech incubators, and corporate organizations the exact method used to build marketing programs that deploy quickly and use data to measure results and scale. The talk behind the best-selling book.
Corporate Startup Engagement: Innovation x Proximity
Recent studies have shown that innovation is happening everywhere--except within the walls of the corporate castle. Learn R&D, M&A, and innovation doesn't have to cost hundreds of millions and take years to deploy and integrate.
Learn why leading corporations are working with startups. Discover the data that suggests its the modern path forward with innovation and, hear how to engage with the ecosystem equipped for success.
How the Internet, Dopamine and Your Brain are Working Together to Screw your Potential
A brief overview of the neurological reward chemical known as dopamine, and insight into our “search culture”; where we no longer utilize the cognitive functions when our minds when are searching for answers.
Bridging the intersection between neuroscience and technology, and what its doing to us.
PUBLISHED WORK
FULL-SCALE: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue
National Best-seller in Startups, Small Business, Technology, eCommerce and Internet Marketing
"This is now my go-to recommendation when anyone asks me about Startup Marketing"
- Ryan Gum, Senior Growth Marketer, HubSpot
"...Full-Scale helped me reach several epiphanies throughout the book"
- David Ahn, Demand Generation Manager, SalesLoft
"Excellent. Definitely worth the read, especially if you're just starting out."
- David Arnoux, Founder, GrowthTribe.io
"8 months of researched solved in 2 days of reading",
"This book is amazing and every entrepreneur should have his/her own copy!",
"Much better than just reading a bunch of case studies and fluff like other competing books"
- Amazon Reviewers
CONTACT
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